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Bongo Bill posted:They printed more physical copies recently. Closer to launch there were shortages. Yeah, the FE thread was basically "gently caress, no one has this game" for the first two weeks or so and a lot of us ended up downloading it at midnight from the Eshop. The worse were the ones that pre-ordered off Amazon and those shipments ended up being delayed for a few days or even a couple of weeks.
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motoh posted:Stolen from somewhere that stole it from the newspaper: What are the chances that the pikanipple system becomes difficult to find or rare? I already have a 3DsXL but may want pika somewhere down the line for my sister. Should I buy it now?
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Jet Ready Go posted:What are the chances that the pikanipple system becomes difficult to find or rare? I already have a 3DsXL but may want pika somewhere down the line for my sister. It's limited edition from what I understand. So, yes, if you want to have one at some point, this is the only point you could get one without resorting to eBay.
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Is that ad saying only the systems with pikachu on them are going to be on sale? I'd rather...not VV Good news, I've been shopping around for one recently. Gotta get my hands on those new rpgs coming out fire emblem, etrian odyssey etc VV Homo Depot fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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Mar 15, 2013 01:58
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Homo Depot posted:Is that ad saying only the systems with pikachu on them are going to be on sale? I'd rather...not All 3DS XL units are on sale for $159 starting March 24th. That means pink/white if you can find one too.
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Mar 15, 2013 01:59
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Homo Depot posted:Is that ad saying only the systems with pikachu on them are going to be on sale? I'd rather...not If you look at the small text, it does say that they're also available in red, blue, and pink and presumably discounted since the regular 3DS is also getting the $40 discount.
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Super Jay Mann posted:One of the worst things to happen to gaming in this post-iOS age is the phenomenon of balking at purchasing an arcade-style video game over a mere $5. I don't have a problem paying that much for games. Hell, I bought Bit.Trip Runner 2 at that exact price last month, which I love to bits. I don't like the regular stages as much as Runner 2, so I'm not going to pay as much for it as I did Runner 2. It's that simple.
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Mar 15, 2013 02:35
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From a couple pages back...Saoshyant posted:Hey residents of the US of A, there's a clearance sale in this goHastings store. They have Shinobi for $6. Worth a look if you are after a bargain that also happens to be a really neat game. 
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Mar 15, 2013 03:17
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There's a Flipnote 3D animation preview video dealio on the eShop right now, so you can watch that if you wanna see how they look in 3D (hint: really loving cool).
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Mar 15, 2013 03:41
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The only comment I have is: that Pikachu 3DS XL has been available in Korea for quite some time. I chose not to get it because HOLY GOD UGLY and the nipple factor. I am playing Pokemon pretty much exclusively, but I'm not willing to put up with something so terribly ugly. Instead, I have a grey-colored 3DS XL which I believe is not available in North America, but I paid closed to $300 for it. That price cut just kicked me in the balls and laughed.
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I really wish they would release a grey/black 3ds xl in NA. But since they won't, I'm going to go ahead and buy the Pikachu one for my wife. My children and I each got a 3ds xl for Christmas this year, which means the Pikachu one will be our 4th. And come June I will be buying 4 copies of Animal Crossing because we all want to be the mayor. My poor wallet.
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Mar 15, 2013 07:55
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It gets posted every page but I might as well remind you NA dudes again - if you register your XL (any model, not just the Pikachu one) and either Luigi's Mansion or Pokemon Mystery Dungeon with Club Nintendo before some point in April you'll get a free digital download for one of five 3DS games (Super Mario 3D Land, Star Fox 64 3D, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, Art Academy or Freakyforms Deluxe).
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Mar 15, 2013 08:09
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New Swapnote from Shiggy for Luigi's Mansion, get your new stationery!
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Mar 15, 2013 08:27
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That HarmoKnight demo is freaking awesome and I will hear nothing to the contrary.
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Not only can I get the Pikachu XL, but I can get it forty bucks cheaper. It just gets better and better.
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Anybody have any experience trading in an old 3DS to Gamestop? How much did you get out of the deal? I'm kind of considering picking up an XL and getting a massive upgrade once that sale hits.
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Jet Ready Go posted:What are the chances that the pikanipple system becomes difficult to find or rare? I already have a 3DsXL but may want pika somewhere down the line for my sister. It was released at the start of December over here and it's still readily available. You don't need to be that bothered.
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Mar 15, 2013 09:40
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GOOD loving 3DSXL OFFER IN EUROPE. Amazon Italy has the 3DSXL in red/blue for 149€ right now, and their international shipping is pretty cheap. Sending one to Germany would cost 153€, to the UK 133GBP; I reckon the rest of Europe isn't much more expensive. Just go to amazon.it and use your regular amazon.de/.co.uk/.es/whatever login.
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Katana Gomai posted:GOOD loving 3DSXL OFFER IN EUROPE. Thanks! I just ordered a blue one, this is a great deal, just in time for Monster Hunter.
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eShop game SteamWorld Dig looks kinda promising. Kinda like a mix of Boulderdash and platform games.
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Jeremys Iron posted:...though the trailer makes it look like there's more 3D action-fighting which I'm probably less keen on, I prefer the platformy, puzzle approach. Yeah, it's a bad 2D brawler. The framerate is terrible and their graphics are pushing the limits of what a 3DS can do (and then the graphics are largely wasted because they pull the camera so far back all their pretty 3D models are little pixel piles) so there are rarely more than 2 - 3 enemies on the screen at the same time. The hit detection is a mess and the controls are a muddy mess. It's a bad game. EDIT: moths posted:The IGN review was a pretty good example of GAMES JOURLNASM. The guy complains about the monsters being too hard to kill... Then goes on to say that combos and special moves are dumb because he beat the game only using basic attack. No, that's not what the guy says at all, so ironically enough this seems like a pretty good example of poor reading comprehension. He complains that the difficulty has bizarre spikes due to the sluggish controls, poor hit detection and low framerate. Which I definitely agree with: I felt like I was constantly taking hits I shouldn't have been. Here, I'll even quote it: IGN posted:Battling seems totally random; you can have an easy time fighting some enemies (a small variety of mostly uninteresting foes) at one point and get your clock cleaned against those same enemies later, not because you’re getting worse, but because everything is incredibly inconsistent. Hit detection, both in dealing and receiving damage, also seems unreliable: I was, at one time, hit by a sword-wielding enemy when jumping over it, with the sword slashing a full body-length below my feet. Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 10:55 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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Just going on the response it's getting online, there seem to be way more people who are legitimately enjoying Mirror of Fate than I expected (and they're not just IGA-haters or mega-LOS fans or whatever).
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Katana Gomai posted:GOOD loving 3DSXL OFFER IN EUROPE. This is the thing that will finally make me buy an XL for my parents.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Just going on the response it's getting online, there seem to be way more people who are legitimately enjoying Mirror of Fate than I expected (and they're not just IGA-haters or mega-LOS fans or whatever). I found the demo mediocre, but passably mediocre. MoF is not a great game by any stretch, but it seemed competent from the demo, not nearly as bad as some people would like you to believe. No contest, this new Castlevania is nowhere near as good as the one I grew up with--Symphony of the Night is one of my favorite games ever. I'm not saying that I'm a fan of this new direction or that everyone should run out and buy MoF. I just feel like people are letting their prejudices cloud their judgment. The game isn't great, and it's certainly not what any of us wanted, but it's hardly a disaster of Castlevania 64 proportions.
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Eurogamer reports that incompetent localization company Ghostlight now claims their European version of Devil Survivor 2 is more than ready, but they will only be able to put it out if enough people preorder a limited edition from their own store. Maybe it will come with two posters, too! A surprisingly twist, just as news of a revised edition of Devil Survivor 2 broke out days ago, and certainly not a scam from a company with a terrible track record. "Hey, if it didn't work for Gaijinworks maybe it will do for us?" I just hope NISA will continue bringing over Atlus titles to Europe like they are now with the new Etrian Odyssey and Persona 4 Golden. The drama and incompetence surrounding companies like Ghostlight and Zen United is becoming too much. We just want to buy a product, for heaven's sake.
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The first of the Guild02 games is now out in Japan - "Monsters Come Out on Friday", ie the one that hasn't been rated for an international release. Here's some footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jov95anM3ao http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=antO-lHM2Ss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8MeQE_0WAk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm5Q4jZ9rxU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhnhamtJCyU
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Saoshyant posted:I just hope NISA will continue bringing over Atlus titles to Europe like they are now with the new Etrian Odyssey Umm, IIRC Nintendo Europe are doing the publishing in Europe, not NISA. Australia is NISA's area. Unless you know something we don't. EDIT: Well, a quick googling showed NISA being the publisher in Australia, but I'm still going to be skeptical until the end. Not that any of this matters anyway, just as long it's coming in the first place. No. 1 Callie Fan fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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Looks like the NOE twitter has just revealed Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D release date. May 24th. That along with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon's release that month makes May a big month for first party releases for Europe.
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Der Shovel posted:No, that's not what the guy says at all, so ironically enough this seems like a pretty good example of poor reading comprehension. quote:...nothing but God of War-like moves that unlock as you level up to supplement the vague sense of your characters becoming stronger. And you never have to use these moves to win –I sure didn’t. Guy plays a combo brawler without using combos and has a bad experience. The article reads like a flagged Wikipedia article.
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Well it certainly sounds like I should give it a miss for the time being and stick with my Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing pre-orders. Speaking of which here's a nice pointless debate given the complete lack of information on their respective differences, should I pre-order Pokemon X or Y? I'm thinking Y solely on the basis that X sounds cooler so I assume everyone'll buy it and I'll end up slightly more useful to the goons I'll inevitably end up online-poke-trading with to complete my collection.
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I hope that Buy an XL/free game promo works if you get Luigi's Mansion on the eshop. I don't see why not since the free game is digital itself.
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quote:To be frank, a lot of you are sounding a little ungrateful. GL have put the time and money into getting the DS version approved over here and you are acting a bit like children who want the newest and shiniest thing out. No wonder we get games 3 years after everyone else with people like that giving them a pass for all this bullshit 
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moths posted:Guy plays a combo brawler without using combos and has a bad experience. Guys make a combo brawler which is so easy and boring it can be completed by mashing the basic attack, players have a bad experience. Maybe next time Mercurysteam should tune up their engine to the point where they can have more than three enemies on screen at once if they want to make a combo brawler? EDIT: I guess having such bad hit detection and controls that the player randomly dies to enemies is another way of putting challenge into a game though? EDIT 2: VVVV That too VVVV Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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moths posted:Guy plays a combo brawler without using combos and has a bad experience. That would be a valid comment if the game did not actually have the same problem as God of War where it has combos but they are less damaging and more vulnerable than one of a few set default combos. Calling it a "combo brawler" doesn't actually make it one any more than GoW or the original LoS (both of which are better games than MoF).
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For anyone who didn't already know this: anime conventions are the world's best place for StreetPasses. I've been here less than an hour, the convention doesn't actually kick off til 4, and I've already got 6.
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NOE announces a date for Donkey Kong Returns 3D: May 24. That's earlier than expected. e: and May 24 is confirmed for North America, as well. The press release came with this photo: 
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jivjov posted:For anyone who didn't already know this: anime conventions are the world's best place for StreetPasses. I've been here less than an hour, the convention doesn't actually kick off til 4, and I've already got 6. My fiancee dragged me to a furry convention and I got 35 in less than an hour. There's going to be a point in the day where your streetpasses ramp up to the point where you just stop looking. also: I downloaded the HarmoKnight demo. At first I thought it was a bit too hard for me to grasp and wouldn't be able to enjoy it, and then I got utterly addicted to it, and kept playing the three stages over and over. If the Wii U eShop ever gets half as good as the 3DS one, that's when I'll end up getting one, I guess!
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I'm going to buy a 3DS pretty soon, and I have an idea what 3DS games I want to get for it. But what are some good DS games that I should pick up? I played a ton of them after the DS Lite came out but then sort of tapered off. Anything that came out during the DSi's life cycle I probably missed. I really liked the Ace Attorney series, TWEWY, Trauma Center, and Hotel Dusk, anything like that that I should check out?
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jivjov posted:For anyone who didn't already know this: anime conventions are the world's best place for StreetPasses. I've been here less than an hour, the convention doesn't actually kick off til 4, and I've already got 6.
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